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PUN

Abbreviation for:
plasma urea nitrogen
patient unmet needs
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It is punningly and bilingually titled 'Ty-Tea, Guard-Gardd' and is a kind of self portrait.
Magic realism with a dreamlike character
Diaz's omnivorous linguistic appetite, what we might also punningly
"Your own goddamn idiom": Junot Diaz's translingualism in The Brief Wondrous life of Oscar Wao
Finally, when Cokes appears eagerly anticipating the puppet show--if the audience has missed these asinine nods to Midas--Jonson has him punningly exclaim, "mine ears long to be at it" (5.4.103).
Telescoping Translation: Hero and Leander, Lenten Stuffe, and Bartholomew Fair
To be sure, Raphael does contribute to the couple's fall; his role in priming the pair for their demise seems so thorough that he functions, as Milton's appellation for him may punningly suggest, as the "half able" angel.
Publicizing the Science of God: Milton's Raphael and the boundaries of knowledge
Michael Blakemore ruffled feathers with his snarky backwards glance at the early days of the National Theatre in the punningly titled Stage Blood, and Kenneth Branagh (a director, of course, as well as an actor) was not yet 30 when his autobiography Beginning was published in 1989.
2 diaries of British theatre leaders: one director looks back himself while another has a biographer to do it for her
This month alone, the 2015 NYC Hot Sauce Expo (just one of many such themed events for spicy food lovers) is scheduled to blast off at the Brooklyn Expo Center, with a full slate of demos, eating contests and ceremonies planned, and New York's resident hipster borough will become home to a Kickstarter-funded hot sauce emporium -- punningly dubbed the Heatonist and already active as a mail-order business -- in the city's oh-so-trendy Williamsburg section.
Hot Stuff
In her review of The Enchanted Princess, theatre critic Audrey Johnson punningly lamented that the children were "not at all enchanted." Barber blames a tired repertoire and a repetitive approach (96-97).
Liz Gorrie and the kaleidoscope alternative
A temporary restaurant, punningly titled ''All Men Must Dine,'' opened in London Friday to mark the DVD release of season four of the HBO series.
Locusts on menu at 'Thrones' feast
"Stinking pump" punningly deploys the dirty dancing shoe in a pneumatic metaphor comparing bawdy desires to filthy water or sewage.
Shakespeare's "bawdy"
By the end of the poem we see that tiger nature made punningly manifest in the predatory act.
Progeny and parody: Narcissus and Echo in Stevie Smith's poems
In effect, the relations among patrilinear clans are based in homosocial desire (what Irigaray punningly calls 'hommo-sexuality'), a repressed and, hence, disparaged sexuality, a relationship between men which is, finally, about the bonds of men, but which takes place through the heterosexual exchange and distribution of women" (40-41).
La scena di seduzione come necropoli. Il mausoleo retorico di Don Giovanni tra letteratura e teoria
According to Butler, representative men's relations revolve around the notions of friendship, rivalry, and succession; they are "based in homosocial desire (what Irigaray punningly calls "hommo-sexuality"), a repressed and, hence, disparaged sexuality, a relationship between men which is, finally, about the bonds between men, but which takes place through the heterosexual exchange and distribution of women [and through other symbolic expressions]" (1990, 40-41; emphasis in original).
The father, the sovereign and the ghost: constructions of representative agency in Poppy Z. Brite's novel drawing blood

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